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...time Gorbachev's jetliner touched down at Paris' Orly Airport, any damage to his composure was long forgotten. After the General Secretary and his wife strode down the gangway onto the red carpet, they were greeted by President Mitterrand. Gorbachev reviewed an honor guard, then sped off for the center of Paris in a 20-car cavalcade surrounded by 50 motorcycle police. Along his way, the Champs Elysees had been decked out with red hammer-and- sickle flags beside the French Tricolor...
...there were plenty of opportunities for Gorbachev to ply his foreign policy wares. At the presidential Elysee Palace, he was once again welcomed by Mitterrand; then the two men slipped into a second-floor salon for a two-hour 15-minute get-acquainted session. By and large, their talks were a broad examination of the East-West climate, and especially of the balance of ) conventional and nuclear military forces in Europe. Both men mentioned Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Mitterrand, who has expressed reservations about the U.S. program, carefully avoided any remarks that could make it appear he was siding...
Eventually Gorbachev retired to the nearby Marigny Palace to change for a state dinner. When the Soviet First Couple returned to the Elysee, Mitterrand and Gorbachev staged a public reprise of several elements of their private chat. After a meal of oyster soup, sole a la Dieppoise, saddle of lamb Provencale and iced nougat, Mitterrand urged both superpowers to find a "reasonable compromise" in Geneva next month. Calling Franco-Soviet cooperation a "fundamental element of our foreign policy," the French President reiterated his country's opposition to space weapons, without mentioning...
Then it was the turn of French Premier Laurent Fabius. After an hour-long chat with Gorbachev, Fabius recounted that he had handed the Soviet leader a list of ten pending human rights cases that are of special interest to the Mitterrand government. Said Fabius: "We had a very live conversation." Gorbachev's response came during the speech to the National Assembly in which he called for separate nuclear arms negotiations with Britain and France. "The Soviet Union attaches the most serious importance to ensuring human rights," he declared. But he added that "it is only necessary to free this...
After an evening of opera at Versailles, Gorbachev gave perhaps his most compelling public performance in the wake of his final private session with Mitterrand on Friday. During a joint one-hour, 45-minute press conference in the Elysee's crystal-chandeliered Salle des Fetes, Gorbachev was at times expansive and jovial. At others -- when questioned yet again about Jewish emigration, for example -- he chopped the air with stiffened fingers and reddened with barely controlled anger. Gorbachev joked about what he described as U.S. arms-control flip-flops, and lectured the international press on its "responsibility" to serve the world...